Events
Past Events
The World Bank and Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery will discuss their new tool to overlay conflict and disaster risks in order to help practitioners and governments to build disaster resilience in fragile states. Participants will have an opportunity to see a trial of the tool and discuss potential uses around the world.
Understanding Risk (UR) British Columbia 2020 is a collaborative symposium that will foster place-based risk reduction strategies to proactively enhance resilience and improve disaster recovery pathways in BC.
This session from the Coronavirus Speaker Series featured Yuko Arai, an Urban Specialist at the World Bank, Hiroyuki Fujita, Chief Resilience Officer of Kyoto City, and Dr. Joseph Runzo-Inada PhD, Chief Resilience Officer & Head of Strategic Planning, City of Toyama, Japan.
CRP profiled its newly developed City Scan StoryMaps to external audiences at the Urban and Regional Information System Association: GIS-Pro 2020 conference, highlighting the new use case for the product. StoryMaps enables CRP to leverage satellite data on the natural and built environment to create interactive maps and methods that help city officials identify their disaster risks and make their city more resilient.
A virtual workshop and launch of the Regional Report on DRM and Cultural Heritage for Central America and the Dominican Republic.
This session of the Coronavirus Speaker Series featured Dr.-Ing. Wiwandari Handayani, Associate Professor, Dept of Urban & Regional Planning, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia; Jagan Shah, Senior Infrastructure Advisor, DFID-India Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs; and Judy Baker, Global Lead and Lead Economist, Urban, DRM, Resilience and Land, The World Bank.
Participants will gain insights on the challenges that women face in managing disaster risks and ways to address these barriers.
This session of the Coronavirus Speaker Series featured Wanli Fang, a Senior Urban Development Specialist with the Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience & Land Global Practice of the World Bank; Athirah Ishak, Deputy Chief Resilience Officer, Melaka; and Lori Nelson, Chief Resilience Officer, Boston.
This session of the Coronavirus Speaker Series featured Floris Bakermans, Management Consultant Smart Mobility and MAAS, AT Osborne and Prof. Chris Nash, Research Professor, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds.
This session of the Coronavirus Speaker Series featured Ana Ardelean, Chief Resilience Officer of Tbilisi, Georgia; Alina Sava, Education Specialist, Education Global Practice, World Bank; and Raphaëlle Thiollier, Oasis Project Manager, City of Paris.